Men's Lacrosse

#19 Brown Laxers Host #16 Yale on Saturday

Apr 15, 2010

Brown's men's lacrosse team (5-4, 2-1 Ivy), ranked 19th in the
latest USILA poll, hosts 16th-ranked Yale (8-2, 2-2 Ivy) at
Stevenson Field on Saturday, April 17 at 1:00 p.m.
in a key Ivy League match-up. Both teams are battling to gain a
berth/seed in the first ever Ivy League Men's Lacrosse Playoffs,
with the top four teams in the Ivy League regular season
playing-off at the highest seed, May 7-9.

Brown's
Record: Brown (5-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy) earned its
second straight win and moved to #19 in the national polls with an
12-9 victory over Penn last Saturday in Philadelphia. The Bears
have also recorded wins over Bryant (9-7), Hartford (13-12), #11
Harvard (13-11), and St. Joseph's (18-4), with narrow losses
to #13 Hofstra (15-12), #9 UMass (11-10), #7 Duke (11-10) and #5
Princeton (9-7).

Bears Earn Ivy
Win Over Penn: Junior attackman
Andrew Feinberg scored four goals and senior
All-American attackman Thomas Muldoon added three
goals to lead Brown to a 12-9 Ivy win over Penn last week. Junior
David Hawley's goal with 11:56 left in the
game broke an 8-8 tie and ignited a 4-0 Brown run that resulted in
the victory. Junior goalie Matt Chriss was
outstanding in goal for the Bears with 12 saves, including four in
the decisive fourth quarter.

The Series
Record: Brown and Yale have met 53 times,
dating back to 1926, with the Bears holding a 35-18 series
advantage over the Elis. Brown has captured the last three
games over Yale, including a 13-9 victory last season.
Yale's last win over the Bears came in 2006, a 14-8
decision.

Feinberg Nets
Four Goals vs. Penn: Junior attackman
Andrew Feinberg (Owings Mills, MD), who had his
streak of recording at least one point in 26 consecutive games
broken against Bryant, came out with a vengeance with four goals
against Penn last Saturday. He had scored 69 goals and handed out
19 assists during the streak, dating back to April 19, 2008.
Feinberg leads the Bears, ranks third in the Ivy League and
16th nationally in goals with 2.50 per game (24 goals).
He has scored four or more goals four times this season, vs.
Hartford, UMass, Harvard and Penn, while scoring three goals
against St. Joseph's and Duke.

High Scoring
Bears: Brown leads the Ivy League and ranks
11th nationally in scoring with 11.56 goals per game.
The Bears' 18.67 points per game ranks 10th in the
nation and leads the Ivies. 14 different Brown players have
scored goals this year.

Muldoon
14th Among Brown's All-Time
Scorers: Senior All-American attackman
Thomas Muldoon (Oakton, VA), who netted three
goals vs. Penn and registered the game-winning goal against Bryant,
is Brown's second leading scorer with 26 points (18 goals, 8
assists). He also netted the game-tying goal midway through
the fourth quarter in Brown's loss to Princeton on
Saturday. A two –time first team All-Ivy and New
England selection, has posted 142 career points for the Bears, 14th
on Brown's all-time scoring list. Muldoon scored four goals
against Duke and became the 10th player in Brown history
to reach the century mark in goals, now with 107 career goals,
7th in the Brown record book.

Thomas Muldoon's Career
Statistics

Season
Goals
Assists
Points

2007
23
9
32

2008
30
7
37

2009
36
11
27

2010
18
8
26

Career
107
35
142

Brown's
Top Career Scorers

Player
Goals
Asst.
Points

1.
Darren Lowe (1992)
111
205
316

2.
David Evans (1996)
145
87
232

3.
Tom Gagnon (1986)
109
99
208

4.
Andy Towers (1993)
150
53
203

5.
Oliver Marti (1993)
144
27
171

6.
Rick Handelman
(1980)
59
109
168

7.
Tom Draper (1964)
123
39
162

8.
John Keogh (1986)
83
75
158

9.
Jamie Munro (1989)
88
64
152

10.
Bernie Buonanno
(1989)
83
66
149

11.
Mick Matthews
(1985)
66
80
146

12.
Bob Anthony (1970)
48
97
145

13.
Stephen Russo (1973)
57
86
143

14.
Thomas Muldoon
(2010)
107
35
142

15.
John Meister (1979)
67
71
138

16.
Bob Scalise (1971)
121
16
137

Jon Thompson
(2003)
97
43
137

Muldoon Named
Finalist For Lowe's Senior CLASS Award:
Senior attackman Thomas Muldoon was recently named
a finalist for the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, an
award that goes to a senior with achievements in four areas of
excellence: Classroom, Character, Community, and Competition.
Brown fans can vote for Muldoon at the award's official web
site, http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/lacrosse_2010/
as well as through text messaging. Fans can text LAX to 74569 to
vote for the finalists.

All-American
Fallon: Junior All-American defenseman
Peter Fallon (Baltimore, MD) ranks second on the
Brown team with 25 ground balls. He scored his second career
goal against Bryant, while picking up a game high five ground
balls.

Seligmann Gets
An Assist: senior midfielder Reade Seligmann (Essex Falls, NJ) handed out four assists in
Brown's win over Penn. He ranks fourth in the Ivy
League with 1.56 assists per game. Seligmann is Brown's
third leading scorer with 22 points (8 goals, 14 assists).

Chriss Among
Top Ivy Goalies: Junior goalie Matt
Chriss (Berwyn, PA) leads the Ivy League with 10.25 saves
per game. Chriss registered a season high 17 saves against
Princeton and added 15 saves vs. Duke. He registered 14 saves in
Brown's win over Bryant, and 12 against Penn.

What Can Brown
Do For You?: Sophomore attackman Parker Brown (San Francisco, CA), who had two goals vs. Penn, is
Brown's third-leading scorer with 22 points (12 goals, 9
assists).

Hat-Trick For
Hawley: Junior middy David Hawley
(New Canaan, CT), a transfer from Williams, registered a hat-trick
against Bryant, scoring three goals against the Bulldogs.
Hawley, who netted two goals vs. Princeton, is Brown's third
leading goal scorer with 17 goals.

Brown Head
Coach Lars Tiffany: Fourth-year head coach
Lars Tiffany is a 1990 Brown graduate and a
two-year Brown lacrosse captain under then-Brown coach Dom
Starsia. He played on two Brown teams that earned NCAA
Tournament berths, and played in the North-South Senior All-Star
Game. Tiffany, who has posted a 33-19 record at Brown, was
named the 2008 and 2009 New England Coach of the Year after guiding
the Brown men's lacrosse team to the Ivy League Championship in
2008, and returning the Bears to the NCAA Tournament in 2009.